15: Sampoong Department Store

The Sampoong Department Store in South Korea collapsed in 1995 killing over 500 people. The investigators were shocked to find just how many rules had been broken but the true root cause might have been something more innocuous.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• Failures of the Sampoong Department Store
• Sampoong Department Store Collapse
• Sampoong Superstore PDF

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Episode Gold Producer: 'r'.
Episode Silver Producer: Chris Stone.